INDEX. 



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Pampas, number of embedded re- 

 mains in, 155 



, S. limit of, 75 



, changes in, 120 



not quite level, 124, 127, 

 143 



, geology of, 129, 155 



, view of, from the Andes, 327 



Papilio feronia, 33 

 Parana, Eio, 126, 139, 147 



, islands in, 134 



Parish, Sir W., on the great drought, 



133 

 Park, Mungo, on eating salt, 110 

 Parrots, 138, 244 

 Partridges, 45 



Pas, fortresses of New Zealand, 418 

 Passes in Cordillera, 334 

 Pasture, altered from grazing of 



cattle, 118 

 Patagones, 64 

 Patagonia, geology of, 170, 329 



, zoology of, 165, 170, 



179 

 Patagonian Indians, 231 

 Peach-trees self-sown, 120 

 Peat, formation of, 286 

 Pebbles perforated, 149, 267 



transported in roots of trees, 



461 

 Pelagic animals in southern ocean, 



161 

 Penas, Gulf of, 246 

 Penguin, habits of, 199 

 Pepsis, habits of, 35 

 Pernambuco, reef of, 498 

 Pernety on hill of ruins, 196 



on tame birds, 398 



Peru, 362 to 371 



, dry valleys of, 358, 362 



Petrels, habits of, 289 

 Peuquenes, pass of, 319 

 Phonolite at F. Noronha, 1 1 

 Phosphorescence of the sea, 162 



of a coralline, 202 



of land insects and 



sea animals, 30 

 Phryniscus, 97 

 Pine of New Zealand, 427 

 Plains at foot of Andes in Chile, 

 262,316 



almost horizontal near St. Fe, 



127 

 Planaria?, terrestrial species of, 26 



Plants of the Galapagos, 374, 392, 

 395 



of Keeling island, 454 



of St. Helena, 487 



fossil in Australia, 448 



Plata, R., 39 



, thunderstorms of, 62 



Plover, long-legged, 114 

 Polished rocks, Brazil, 12 

 Polyborus chimango, 57 



Novse Zelandise, 58 



Braziliensis, 55 



Ponsonby Sound, 221 

 Porpoises, 39 

 Port Desire, 164 



-, river of, 107, 168 



St. Julian, 170 

 Famine, 233 



Portillo pass, 319, 325 



Porto Praya, 1 



Potato, wild, 285 



Potrero Seco, 350 



Prairies, vegetation of, 118 



Prevost, M., on cuckoos, 53 



Priestley, Dr., on lightning-tubes, 



59 

 Procellaria gigantea, habits of, 289 

 Proctotretus, 97 

 Proteus, blindness of, 52 

 Protococcus nivalis, 322 

 Pteroptochos, two species of, 270 



, species of, 278, 288 



Puente del Inca, 334, 356 

 Puffinus cinereus, 290 

 Puffinuria Berardii, 291 

 Puma, habits of, 136, 183, 269 



, flesh of, 117 



Puna, or short respiration, 322 

 Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca, 81 



Gorda, 129, 356 



Pyrophorus luminosus, 31 



Quadrupeds, fossil, 81, 127, 130, 155, 



173 

 , large, do not require 



luxuriant vegetation, 85 



-, weight of, 87 



Quartz of the Ventana, 109 



of Tapalguen, 116 



of Falkland Island, 196 



Quedius, 10 

 Quillota, valley of, 254 

 Quintero, 254 

 Quiriquina Island, 302 

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